When you are constantly on the move, you need to streamline what you bring with you on your travels. The comforts of having a giant docking station for each and every one of your devices at home is long gone, and you’ll just have to make the best of it. You can opt to have ten or more cables floating around your bag, or you can get the Roll Up Travel Charger.
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You have achieved the perfect date. Excellent food, fancy clothes, beautiful music playing in the background, and now you want to top it off with a boat ride. Instead of wowing your date with such a romantic display, you watch them go from bored to uninterested as you struggle to move the oars, and can’t seem to get the boat to go in the right direction.
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What is it about retro style that gets the emotions pumping? What, you think I’m joking? Take a look around and notice how nice you feel when you see something made long ago which is still working well. Or something you cherish because it brings memories flooding back. See? That’s the power of retro.
Read MoreWay back in the day ZoneAlarm set the computer security world alight with a cool, very powerful personal firewall product which defined the world of Windows PC safety for years. Then the company seemed to lose its way, the technology started to wilt, and their products disappeared from popular use as other products took over. Well they’re back.
Read MoreThat there new fangled Pinterest thingy has got some answering to do. Not content with having the online world run around ‘pinning’ everything in sight to their boards, the interface has also spawned an unbelievably wide range of copycat services, all based on easy to the eye image blocks.
Read MoreThere are some things you do so many times that they just become second nature to you. The obvious one is driving, but one you may not think of is flipping a light switch. We do it when we wake up, when we enter and leave rooms, and before we go to bed.
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Our options for mobile gaming were rather limited in the past. The Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP were the main consoles for hand-held gaming, but the arrival of touchscreen phones changed all of that. While the new games we play on phones may not be as in-depth as the older handheld console versions, they are still a lot of fun to play, with some limitations.
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When going on a long trip, there is nothing worse than having several people who need to charge their devices all at once. Any charger you get for your car is going to plug into the cigarette lighter socket, and there is only room to charge one device at a time. That is, until Scosche decided to change all that.
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Everyone takes their technology too seriously nowadays. It’s all cool brushed metal this, and sleek stylish bezel that. What the world really needs is more fun with their gadgets – less sombre, more tee-hee. Not only will it make those dull business meetings more interesting, it might get you noticed by people that count. H.R. for a start.
Read MoreIvan Golubev spends a lot of his time creating commercial software for people who have lost or forgotten their passwords and need to get back into their software. He’s so far produced products to help you retrieve ZIP, MS Office, Excel and other passwords, all designed for Windows users with a problem.
Read MoreBamboo is a marvellous material, stronger than steel, flexible, durable and very ecologically sustainable. Some varieties can grow over a metre a day! In the Philippines they even make houses of it, and it’s used as scaffolding across the whole of the Far East. The really weird thing is it’s a grass, imagine having to mow it every Sunday? The latest big idea for this wonder plant is to use it for mass transportation, most specifically bicycles.
Read MoreThere are quite a few of us who know we have a bit of a caffeine problem. Two or more cups of coffee in the morning, then a few more throughout the day makes for quite an amount of caffeine to be coursing through your veins. At the end of a long day, you might actually have a little bit of trouble sleeping just because of the residual effects.
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If you couldn’t tell by now, I have an iPhone, and I love it very much. Apparently, Bob loves his iPhone too (check out the video in the link), but doesn’t like leaving it on tabletops or the floor as things can be spilled on it. I know of this situation all too well, as my beloved mobile device had a bad run-in with coffee, and has been mad at me since.
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Working out on a weight training machine is tough work. Finding the optimal weight to work out at, and building on top of that not only takes a lot of time, but is also quite boring. What if you could take the idea of working out on a machine, and move it underwater?
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Apparently there are more saunas in Finland than cars, with just about every home having one installed somewhere in the basement or yard. Having sat in several Finnish saunas in my time, I can confirm that they’re hot. Very hot. And as for this idea that you have to run out into the sub-zero snow to cool down afterwards? Madness, is all I’ve got to say.
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